HHS Ends Tracking Rates Of Cancer, HIV, And STDs

Politico reports:

The federal teams that count public health problems are disappearing — putting efforts to solve those problems in jeopardy. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has halted efforts to collect data on everything from cancer rates in firefighters to mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis to outbreaks of drug-resistant gonorrhea to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The offices that ran the Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer were scrapped. So were teams that reported the levels of lead in childrens’ blood, alcohol-related deaths, asthma rates, exposures to radon and other dangerous chemicals and how many people who use injectable drugs contract infectious diseases.

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How can American get any greater? This administration seems intent on making the majority of Americans sicker, poorer, less safe & less educated.
‘We are flying blind’: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer, HIV and more https://t.co/4Q8nS00diE via @politico

— Molly J. McDonald (@schmolls) April 13, 2025

RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis. https://t.co/itzSBOI8R2

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 3, 2025

RFK Jr. slashed $11 billion from programs fighting infectious diseases— right in the middle of a measles outbreak. Now he acts like he knows nothing about it, while kids die from preventable illnesses.

“I’m not familiar with those cuts.” pic.twitter.com/4j7EpqafgC

— American Bridge 21st Century (@American_Bridge) April 11, 2025

The HHS turns 72 today.

Under RFK Jr., 2 children have died of measles and $11B has been cut from programs like adolescent diabetes research and Black lung screenings. pic.twitter.com/Hx5zEtS0y0

— FactPost (@factpostnews) April 11, 2025